Do you want to replace ELK by Spark? Depending on your queries you could do as you proposed. However, many of the text analytics queries will probably be much faster on ELK. If your queries are more interactive and not about batch processing then it does not make so much sense. I am not sure why you plan to use Presto.
> On 23 May 2016, at 07:28, Mat Schaffer <m...@schaffer.me> wrote: > > I'm curious about trying to use spark as a cheap/slow ELK > (ElasticSearch,Logstash,Kibana) system. Thinking something like: > > - instances rotate local logs > - copy rotated logs to s3 (s3://logs/region/grouping/instance/service/*.logs) > - spark to convert from raw text logs to parquet > - maybe presto to query the parquet? > > I'm still new on Spark though, so thought I'd ask if anyone was familiar with > this sort of thing and if there are maybe some articles or documents I should > be looking at in order to learn how to build such a thing. Or if such a thing > even made sense. > > Thanks in advance, and apologies if this has already been asked and I missed > it! > > -Mat > > matschaffer.com
